Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books : to which is Added Samson Agonistes, and Poems Upon Several Occasions, with A Tractate of Education |
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... fome days Lodg'd in Bethabara where John baptiz'd , Mufing and much revolving in his breast , How beft the mighty work he might begin Of Saviour to mankind , and which way first Publifh his god - like office now mature , One day forth ...
... fome days Lodg'd in Bethabara where John baptiz'd , Mufing and much revolving in his breast , How beft the mighty work he might begin Of Saviour to mankind , and which way first Publifh his god - like office now mature , One day forth ...
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... d in his breast , as well might recommend Such folitude before choiceft fociety . Full forty days he pafs'd , whether on hill Sometimes , anon in shady vale , each night Under the covert of fome antient oak , Or cedar IO BOOK I .. PARADISE.
... d in his breast , as well might recommend Such folitude before choiceft fociety . Full forty days he pafs'd , whether on hill Sometimes , anon in shady vale , each night Under the covert of fome antient oak , Or cedar IO BOOK I .. PARADISE.
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... fome antient oak , Or cedar , to defend him from the dew , Or harbour'd in one cave , is not reveal'd ; Nor tafted human food , nor hunger felt Till thofe days ended , hunger'd then at last Among wild beafts : they at his fight grew ...
... fome antient oak , Or cedar , to defend him from the dew , Or harbour'd in one cave , is not reveal'd ; Nor tafted human food , nor hunger felt Till thofe days ended , hunger'd then at last Among wild beafts : they at his fight grew ...
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... fome great change ; to honour ? no , But trouble , as old Simeon plain foretold , That to the fall and rising he should be Of many in Ifrael , and to a sign Spoken against , that through my very foul A fword shall pierce , this is my ...
... fome great change ; to honour ? no , But trouble , as old Simeon plain foretold , That to the fall and rising he should be Of many in Ifrael , and to a sign Spoken against , that through my very foul A fword shall pierce , this is my ...
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... fome active scene Of various perfons each to know his part : Then to the defart takes with these his flight ; Where still from fhade to fhade the Son of God After forty days fasting had remain'd , Now hungring first , and to himself ...
... fome active scene Of various perfons each to know his part : Then to the defart takes with these his flight ; Where still from fhade to fhade the Son of God After forty days fasting had remain'd , Now hungring first , and to himself ...
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